One Book One BART: Guided Nature Walk with Author Jeff Miller - 11am

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UPDATE: Due to high demand, Jeff Miller will be hosting two walks on Saturday, April 19: a 9am to 11am walk and an 11am to 1pm walk. Rather than walking four miles around the entirety of the lake, the walks will be shortened to 2.5 miles, out and back. Please only sign up for one walk - the itineraries will be the same.

Meet Bay Area Wildlife author Jeff Miller as he and his conservationist pals take us on a 2.5-mile guided nature walk at Lake Merritt that will begin and end at 19th St. Station in Oakland.

Lake Merritt is a natural jewel woven into the urban fabric of Oakland, and Jeff will tell us all about the flora and fauna that call the lake home. We’ll likely see herons, egrets, coast live oaks, lady beetles, free-floating phytoplankton, and so much more, on this leisurely paced walk on the paved section of the lake path.

Wear comfy walking shoes, fill up your water bottle, and bring whatever else you may need for the walk. And don’t forget your copy of Bay Area Wildlife – Jeff will be signing books.

We will gather in the non-paid area of the 19th St. Station concourse near exit A2, by the station agent booth (Broadway/Thomas L. Berkeley Way). Look for BART staff holding One Book One BART signage. Find a map of the station .

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One Book One BART returns this spring with a natural history-themed group read and three events for nature lovers of all ages and interests.

BART's book club is novel strategy for rider and employee engagement that invites members of the public to read the same book at the same time and participate in themed events in BART trains and stations.

The official selection is "Bay Area Wildlife: An Irreverent Guide” (Heyday Books), a humorous, informative guide to local fauna by naturalist and conservationist Jeff Miller. Miller wrote the book to connect readers with regional fauna and inspire people to witness the Bay Area’s magnificent natural phenomena for themselves.

is an amateur naturalist, professional conservationist, and passionate advocate for wildlife. Jeff is the founder of the nonprofit Alameda Creek Alliance and has served as its executive director since 1997, working to restore steelhead trout and salmon to Alameda Creek and protect the Bay Area’s largest local watershed. He’s a senior conservation advocate with the Center for Biological Diversity, spearheading biodiversity protection campaigns throughout the Bay Area and California, preparing endangered species listing petitions, writing press releases, and doing public outreach and organizing around wildlife protection issues. Over the last quarter century, he has been involved in conservation efforts for dozens of the most iconic imperiled wildlife species in the Bay Area, the most recent being securing state protections for burrowing owls. Jeff says that loving nature is as important as fighting for it and grieving ecological destruction. People tend to care more about animals and places that they have a direct experience with, so he wrote Bay Area Wildlife: An Irreverent Guide to try to connect readers with our regional fauna and inspire them to make a pilgrimage to witness the Bay Area’s spectacular natural phenomena.

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